We built this with the specific goal of helping small businesses be discovered by consumers looking for a way to support. You nailed the problem... without a place to search for items, it seems that there isn't an easy way to support small businesses, and bypass Amazon. From the shop's perspective, getting eyeballs is extremely difficult for them, so they end up relying on influencers and SEO in order to get eyeballs.
We would love to help you shop online without defaulting to Amazon first... Would love your feedback.
daniel
One query that could use some cleanup is 'router', which is filled with 'Route Package Protection' items. https://vendazzo.com/products?q=router¤cy&page=1
We don't have a lot of shops with electronics at the moment, so a query for "router" would be light anyway, but these particular results are not useful at all.
You can find a rough breakdown of our product counts by category in our "Why Shopify is the best (only?) alternative to Amazon" post: https://blog.vendazzo.com/why-shopify-is-the-best-alternativ...
Of the 140k shops we currently have, the vast majority are clothing (shoes, shirts, jewelry, etc), home & garden (furniture, kitchen, cups, glasses, etc), and vehicle parts. The other categories still have a significant number of products in them, but we're light on the computer accessories, and much of what you find will be either older generation or enterprise. Its possible that the 140k shops that we selected just happen to not be electronics/computer shops, but until we're able to index the remaining 1.2M+ shops (that we're aware of) we won't know for sure.
One other thing to point out is that the filters (after you search), can be very helpful We're still not at a point where we can build out semantic search, so using the filters to select a category, colour, etc, can drastically improve the relevance of your results. Hope that helps!
BTW, I have made changes to remove the "Route Protection Package" from our index, and it should start disappearing over the next week or so. Thanks for pointing that out!